3MWh | Marie-Magdalena Kochová | CZE | 12'

A nuclear power plant worker obsessed with counting has set a maximum limit on how much electricity he wants to consume. But the energy that should have lasted him for the rest of his life is slowly running out, forcing him to decide on its final use. 3 MWh is a film poem about degrowth and shows what it would look like if man stopped putting themselves at the center of nature. A 16mm analogue footage damaged by digitally recorded electrical discharges based on protagonist's voice demonstrates the relationship between man and material reality

Cyclepaths | Anton Cla | BEL | 12'

An old woman is carrying her shopping bags. A child with a gun on his back riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

Rebirth | Rachel Micallef Somerville | MLT | 13'

Bodies, trauma, Maltese landscapes, circularity, oneiric metaphors, femininity, water, clay, death, rebirth. Rebirth (2023) is a meditation on psychoanalysis, dreams, and the cinematic feminine. A particularly personal film, it attempts to explore the theory of The Matrixial Borderspace, penned by Bracha Ettinger, both in terms of its shape as well as multiple recurring thematic elements.

Eschaton Ad | Andrea Gatopoulos | CHE | 8'

An apocalyptic film is suddenly interrupted by a strange ad.

A Bird Called Memory | Leonardo Martinelli | BRA | 15'

A bird called Memory has forgotten how to come back home. Lua, a trans woman, tries to find Memory in the streets, but the city can be a hostile place.

The Eyeball Person | Yuri Muraoka | JAP | 12'

This film is about gazes and goodbyes. An attempt to weave images with words and to weave a poem with images. I realize that living is suffering to see that Nemu, the one of my daughters, squirms with the struggle and sunflowers squirm to try to bloom.

Technically_Breathing | Markéta Müllerová | DEU | 6'

technically_breathing is a 3D animated film that raises the question of whether avatars and artificial intelligence truly breathe or merely create an illusion. The film explores the idea that breathing in times of societal crises can be understood as an act of survival and resistance.

Coldness | Alfred Rubin | DNK | 10'

Set in Gothenburg's first snow, Coldness depicts the chilling distance among citizens and their city, as well as between individuals — a lone bassist, a distant harmonicist, dancing lovers by a frozen river, and a girl finding onions on her way home. Narrated by Tarjei Sandvik Moe and Isabella Ølshøj, the film immerses us in the frigid embrace of a Swedish winter.Through glimpses of the characters, we examine their feelings of cold. A bassist plays alone in the street and is answered by a harmonicist from across town, two lovers dance by the frozen river and a girl stumble upon a bunch of onions on her way home. Narrated by Tarjei Sandvik Moe and Isabella Ølshøj, we linger in the coldness of Swedish winter.

Walls | Ivan Dimitrov | BGR | 7'

The history of Bulgaria is represented through the walls of a medieval church closed during communism for the construction of a uranium mine. The same mine is closed with the end of communism, leaving only traces of it. The decrepit walls, the only signs of a past that no longer exists.

Into Matter | Javier Imaginario | DEU | 9'